Create A Booklet From Any PDF Document
BookletCreator - is a free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book. Here is how it goes:
Keeping Students Motivated With Artificial Agents
The objective of the AtGentive project is to investigate the use of artificial agents for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners in the context of individual and collaborative learning environments.
Google Brain Implant
In John Varley’s upcoming sci-fi novel Rolling Thunder, everyone has a brain implant that lets them Google information constantly. And many futurists are saying this technology will become a reality long before we colonize Mars. The question isn’t whether we’ll have Google brain implants (or the futuristic search engine equivalent), but how we’ll handle them.
Flash Cards go 2.0
A new site launched in beta Thursday that combines educational resources with social media. The site, Flashcard Friends, uses Web 2.0 technologies to allow students (and teachers) to create skill practice materials (i.e. electronic flashcards) and share them with other users.
Open CourseWare Consortium
OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
An Intro into the Semantic Web
What is this new medium all about? The following link offers a few videos to help clear the 3.0 fog. What is the semantic web all about? What will it offer?
Yahoo! Teachers!
Teachers: Are you ready to collaborate and share curriculum and ideas globally? Yahoo! is creating a social networking site for teachers. Yahoo! Teachers will be free for all teachers, administrators, and education specialists.
Publish yourself with Scribd
Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!
Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.
Second Life going Mobile
Now you can take your virtual world out into the real world. Streaming mobile games service provider Vollee will connect 3G phone handsets users to the 3D virtual world platform Second Life. Vollee’s Second Life mobile service will enable access to the virtual world of Second Life for Residents to explore, interact and communicate on-line.
